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A chimney stands at a burned residence on Yaqui Gulch Road as a wildfire burns near Mariposa, Calif., on Wednesday, July 19, 2017. The fire has forced more than 4,000 people from homes in and around a half-dozen small communities, officials said (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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An air tanker drops retardant while battling a wildfire near Mariposa, Calif., Wednesday, July 19, 2017. The fire has forced thousands of people from homes in and around a half-dozen small communities, officials said. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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FILE - In this July 17, 2017 file photo Gov. Jerry Brown, center, is flanked by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle as he discusses the passage of a pair of climate change measures at a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif. Brown and legislative leaders managed to extend California's cap-and-trade law thanks in part to tax breaks that benefit businesses and agriculture. The provision helped bring support from Republicans and moderate Democrats. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
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In this July 17, 2017 file photo Gov. Jerry Brown, discusses the passage of a pair of climate change measures,at a Capitol news conference in Sacramento, Calif. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli,File)
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Illustration on the BNP and terrorism in Bangladesh by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2016 file photo, actor Forest Whitaker poses for photographers at the "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" premiere in London. Whitaker will guest-star in a multi-episode arc on “Empire” this fall. “Empire” returns for its new season Sept. 27. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP, File)
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First officer Jukka Vuosalmi sits at the controls of the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sets sail in the North Pacific Ocean toward the Bering Strait, Friday, July 7, 2017. A group of international researchers is sailing into the Arctic Sea aboard the Finnish icebreaker to traverse the Northwest Passage and record the environmental and social changes that are taking place in one of the most forbidding corners of the world. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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Trainee Jussi Mikkotervo looks out from the bow of the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it sails through ice floating on the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Alaska while traversing the Arctic's Northwest Passage, Sunday, July 16, 2017. Although the passage presents an attractive shortcut for maritime traffic between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, only a dozen or two vessels attempt to navigate the poorly charted Canadian Arctic Archipelago during the brief summer window each year. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, July 8, 2008 file photo, boatswain Bob Taylor, of Halifax, watches as a box corer is lowered from the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker Louis S. St-Laurent in the Davis Strait. The device gathers mud and sediment from the bottom of the ocean floor. The Louis is on its annual voyage to Canada's Arctic which will include patrols through the Northwest Passage. In addition to serving the people of Canada's North the ship is carrying a team of scientists studying climate change and the health of Canada's three oceans. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Canadian ice navigator, David "Duke" Snider shows the route the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica will navigate on a map of current sea ice conditions as the ship sails north in the Bering Sea Tuesday, July 11, 2017. A group of international researchers is sailing into the Arctic Sea aboard the Finnish icebreaker to traverse the Northwest Passage and record the environmental and social changes that are taking place in one of the most forbidding corners of the world. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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FILE - In this Oct. 25, 1988 file photo, one of two trapped California Gray Whales swims in a long man-made opening in the Arctic Ocean ice as two native whalers move ice away from the whale as rescue efforts continue near Barrow, Alaska. The whales had been trapped for more than two weeks. (AP Photo/Jack Smith)
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Researcher Daria Gritsenko looks out toward the American island of Little Diomede, Alaska, near left, and behind it on the right, the Russian island of Big Diomede, as the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica sails along the international date line through the Bering Strait, Friday, July 14, 2017. The international date line divides the two islands, with Little Diomede sometimes referred to as Yesterday Isle and Big Diomede as Tomorrow Island. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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FILE - In this 1926 file photo, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, left, stands with Lieutenant Undahl, who is his pilot in the attempt to fly over the North Pole, at the doorway to his hut on the Arctic ice. In 1903, Amundsen and six other men set out in a tiny ship, the Gjoa. Sailing from east to west, they drew on the expertise of indigenous Inuit people to brave the dangerous conditions and reached Alaska in 1906. (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this Dec. 6, 1955 file photo, Capt. Roald Amundsen and one of his companions make observations during Arctic exploration. In 1903, Amundsen and six other men set out in a tiny ship, the Gjoa. Sailing from east to west, they drew on the expertise of indigenous Inuit people to brave the dangerous conditions and reached Alaska in 1906. (AP Photo)
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FILE - In this May 12, 2017, file photo, Chicago Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky looks to pass during NFL football rookie minicamp in Lake Forest, Ill. The Bears have signed Trubisky, their first-round draft pick and the No. 2 overall selection in April, the team announced Wednesday, April 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
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FILE - In this Feb, 12, 2015 file photo, Jenna Jambeck, an environment engineering professor at the University of Georgia, holds a plastic baggie with trash collected from a clean up at Panama Beach, Fla., at the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) conference in San Jose, Calif. A new massive study finds that production of plastic and the hard-to-breakdown synthetic waste is soaring in huge numbers. The study says since 1950, industry has made more than 9 billion tons of plastics. That’s enough to cover the entire country of Argentina ankle deep in the stuff. (AP Photo/Seth Borenstein)
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FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2016 file photo, Indian rag pickers look for reusable materials at a garbage dump littered with polythene bags in Lucknow, India. A new massive study finds that production of plastic and the hard-to-breakdown synthetic waste is soaring in huge numbers. The study says since 1950, industry has made more than 9 billion tons of plastics. That’s enough to cover the entire country of Argentina ankle deep in the stuff. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)
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FILE - In this March 12, 2015 file photo, plastic trash is compacted into bales ready for further processing at the waste processing dump on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus. A new massive study finds that production of plastic and the hard-to-breakdown synthetic waste is soaring in huge numbers. The study says since 1950, industry has made more than 9 billion tons of plastics. That’s enough to cover the entire country of Argentina ankle deep in the stuff. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)
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Flames from a backfire burn as CalFire crews battle the Ditwiler Fire near Mariposa, Calif., on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. Record rain and snowfall in the mountains this winter was celebrated for bringing California's five-year drought to its knees, but it has turned into a challenge for firefighters battling flames feeding on dense vegetation, officials said. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)
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FILE - In a Friday, July 7, 2017 file photo, commuters arrive in the New Jersey Transit portion of New York's Pennsylvania Station. a day after an Amtrak train was involved in a slow-speed derailment at Penn Station. A report shows that a faulty track condition caused the July 6 derailment at New York’s Penn Station in an area where Amtrak is performing repairs that are causing service cutbacks for hundreds of thousands of commuters this summer. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
